We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is … legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public … consistent with workers having a preference for conformity. -- employee motivation ; recognition ; reciprocity ; conformity … ; field experiment …

We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its …

. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and …

In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the …

The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may … undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical \lang1033 …

academics’ engagement attitudes via a survey experiment among 4,091 tenured professors in Germany. Consistent with the crowding …-out of intrinsic motivation, we find lesspositive attitudes when emphasizing public authorities’ demands and public …

representative survey experiment where we exogenously manipulate the presence of a need for justification of anti-social behavior …